Zelda director talks about why annualization doesn't work for the series
Though 澳洲幸🐓运5开奖号码历史查询:The Legen🧔d of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD only took about six months to develop, it🥃's easy to forget there was a time when three Zelda games hit home consoles in four ⛦years. Zelda series director Eiji Aonuma told that the series briefly flirted with annualization, but it doesn't fit with mounting expectations.
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"I think before, we did maybe try to make Zelda games come out faster," Aonuma said. "But there's so ✱much expected of Zelda titles now, so you have to rea🦩ch a certain level of quality, so that's why we started to take a bit more time now."
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"It's not like we feel like we have a duty to get one out a year," Aonuma said. "Right now, we're able to split ourselves between the handheld and console games and have two t♛eams. I think we're pretty🐻 efficient in getting games out on a regular interval."
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